I am American and we rarely see athletes complain about the playing surface. I understand soccer is a little different and it can drastically change the game, but the concept is still new to me. What would yall say is the worse pitch in all of Europe. I have been hearing Milan a lot, and that they will intentionally hurt its surface before playing Barcelona so just want to hear your insights.

Edit: Has anyone ever had artificial grass or turf in Europe? I doubt so but as I said I am an American and have played soccer since I was born. In high school we used to have to play most of our games on an American football field and some of them were turf which made the games brutal. Ball bounced higher, sliding would hurt like a carpet burn, and if you fell it was like falling on concrete.

Sand is the lazy way to supplement the grass divots etc., it really just makes it level, but the integrity of the grass is ruined until new sod is placed. As for the ball, it just makes it bounce like its almost on concrete, maybe not AS bad but worse than grass

Out of the big clubs A.C. Milan and Internazionale who share the San Siro. It's simply atrocious. Manchester United also have had a pretty terrible pitch for quite a few years now but it's a decade old now.

Out of the Premier League clubs it's an easy shout for Wigan Athletic whose stadium is used by Rugby clubs too.

". Manchester United also have had a pretty terrible pitch for quite a few years now but it's a decade old now"

This is the first time I'm reading this. Care to explain? Whenever I've watched Arsenal play there, it hasn't looked at all bad. What's wrong with it? Is it not green enough or are the blades of grass not to your desired length?